The International Catholic Migration Commission
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
Malaysia    Combating gender-based violence (GBV) among urban refugees in MalaysiaThe threat of GBV towards women and children is heightened significantly among refugee populations living in urban settings. In Malaysia, ICMC is working in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) and local NGOs to prevent and combat GBV against women and children from numerous Burmese ethnic groups within the refugee communities, and to offer emergency protection and assistance to GBV survivors.Read more Good Shepherd Asia Pacific Workshop From migration to trafficking: A slippery slopeKUALA LUMPUR, 16 February 2011—Gathered together with more than 50 counter trafficking experts from across South East Asia, ICMC U.S. Liaison Officer Jane Bloom presented workshop participants with an analysis of the multiple facets for migration and trafficking and the church's collective role in preventing trafficking, and in protecting those most likely to become victims.Read more Malaysia Providing safe shelter for trafficked migrant worker women, and those at riskPlease check back again soon to learn more about this project.Read more Malaysia Fighting trafficking a challenge in MalaysiaPENANG, 20 September 2010 (UCAN)—Malaysia is becoming a key transit point as well as destination for global human trafficking activities, a workshop learnt recently.Read more Malaysia Hundreds of Indonesian workers face executionJAKARTA, 27 August 2010—Indonesian Church spokesmen and a group of NGOs have criticized the government over its apparent lack of concern for hundreds of imprisoned migrant workers who face the death penalty in Malaysia.Read more Malaysia Human trafficking victim 'sold' twiceKOTA KINABALU, MALAYSIA, 25 June 2010 (Borneo Post)—It was the worst 16 days of Albert Joseph’s life. During that short period, he was ’sold’ twice and was forced to work on two jobs foreign to him.Believing that he was a victim of human trafficking, the 37-year-old disclosed that his determination to escape and luck had helped him to be reunited with family members back home.Read more  |
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